Life and Killing

Fairy Li really did buy several large bones from the market and started making Bones broth for Su Ziyang.

Have you ever heard of slow-cooked soup?

While busy with her work, Fairy Li chatted idly with Su Ziyang.

What does that mean?

Su Ziyang sat on the sofa, motionless.

"That's right, it's a slow-cooked soup!"

Fairy Li thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a clear explanation for Su Ziyang. She just repeated the old-fashioned soup recipe.

"Uh... so why is it called that? What does 'Old Fire Soup' mean?"

Su Ziyang was bored, so he asked again.

"Shut up!"

Fairy Li pointed a kitchen knife at Su Ziyang and said.

"You'll know what a delicious, slow-cooked soup is like once you drink it. You talk too much!"

"..."

Su Ziyang was speechless.

Women... their moods change so quickly.

About two hours later, when Su Ziyang was starving, Fairy Li brought a clay pot to the table.

There were a few Bones in the pot, and a strange cloth bag.

"It's really Bones broth..."

Su Ziyang stirred the casserole with a spoon and found that there was really nothing else in the pot besides those two things.

"Yes, you're injured, so you need to drink some nutritious soup to recover faster. Drink up..."

After Fairy Li finished speaking, she put her hands together and stared at Su Ziyang with her big, bright eyes.

"Sister, may I ask? Is this the only soup we have for this meal?"

Su Ziyang watched as Fairy Li sat down, but showed no intention of going to the kitchen to get anything else.

"Yes, you drank it all, but I won't. I'm not eating dinner tonight!"

Fairy Li smiled and looked at Su Ziyang.

"Um. I'd like to eat something substantial, steamed buns or pancakes are fine."

Su Ziyang stirred the soup in the bowl with a spoon, then stared at Fairy Li and whispered.

"No. You're injured, you can only drink soup first. Eating such greasy food will affect your blood circulation, and your injury won't heal easily!"

Fairy Li directly and righteously rejected Su Ziyang's suggestion, then scolded, "Stop stirring it up, drink it!"

"Forehead..."

Su Ziyang scratched his head and then asked, "Sister, may I ask who you learned these theories from?"

"That's what my mom told me. Why are you acting like a little kid, asking all these questions? Hurry up and drink it, try it, or it'll get cold."

Fairy Li urged him on, and Su Ziyang had no choice but to drink a spoonful under Fairy Li watchful gaze.

The moment Su Ziyang took a spoonful of soup, his eyes widened instantly.

"It tastes good, doesn't it?!"

Seeing Su Ziyang's surprised expression, Fairy Li clapped her hands happily.

Su Ziyang pursed his lips, took a deep breath, and finally swallowed the soup in his mouth.

After swallowing a mouthful of soup, Su Ziyang still pursed his lips, stared wide-eyed, and then nodded deeply twice, giving Fairy Li a thumbs up.

"It tastes so good! Hahaha. My mom taught me really well."

Fairy Li's eyes narrowed into slits with laughter.

Seeing Fairy Li's happy expression, Su Ziyang didn't reveal his true feelings.

Let me put it this way, I don't know if any of you have ever tried traditional Chinese medicine soup.

It's like bland meat broth mixed with Chinese medicine. The first taste is of Chinese medicine, followed by the greasy taste of meat broth. It's not just bad, it's absolutely awful!!!

"It's delicious, so drink more!"

As she spoke, Fairy Li served Su Ziyang another large bowl, then looked at Su Ziyang with expectant eyes.

"Um... actually, I'm not really that hungry. I'm a little sleepy. I want to take a nap..."

Su Ziyang scratched the back of his head, got up, and started to limp toward the bedroom.

"Su Ziyang!"

Fairy Li shouted.

Startled, Su Ziyang jumped back to his seat.

"You can only go to sleep after you've finished this soup. I've been cooking it for over two hours. Hurry up!!!"

Seeing Fairy Li's expression, Su Ziyang gritted his teeth and drank all the soup in the clay pot.

"That's more like it."

Fairy Li smiled contentedly as she looked at the perfectly clean clay pot.

"You can go to sleep now!"

Fairy Li went to wash up, and Su Ziyang watched Fairy Li retreating figure, grinning but not daring to utter a sound.

Women are indeed terrifying...

The next day, Su Ziyang, supported by Fairy Li, returned to the competition hall.

The Wu Yun that sparred with Su Ziyang yesterday did not appear. This time, there was an extra tall, thin old man on the other side. This old man looked to be about the same age as Yang Jinguang.

Su Ziyang glanced at Mr. Mengfei and the others sitting to the side, and then sat down as well.

"Hmm... why do you look so tired, my disciple? Could it be that you did something tiring last night???"

No matter the occasion, there's never a time when Mr. Mengfei doesn't tease Su Ziyang.

Su Ziyang narrowed his eyes, looked at his master, and was speechless.

Fairy Li simply stood behind, smiling without saying a word.

Seeing Fairy Li's expression, Su Ziyang was even more speechless.

"Hey, where's Guo Tianren?"

Su Ziyang noticed that Guo Tianren, a key figure, was missing from the group opposite him.

It is said that Cao Cao was the fastest runner in China; speak of Cao Cao Cao and he appears.

Just as Su Ziyang finished asking his question, Guo Tianren walked in from outside the door.

Meow meow meow...

As Guo Tianren walked into the house, the bleating of lambs echoed behind him.

"These two little things are really hard to handle!"

Guo Tianren complained and pulled on the rope in his hand, and two little goats followed him in.

What's going on here?

Su Ziyang looked at the two little goats behind Guo Tianren with a puzzled expression, and then at Mr. Mengfei.

"It's probably nothing good!"

Daoist Jin stroked his beard and muttered something.

"Su Ziyang, this is our second round of competition. I bought the lamb with my own money. You know acupressure, right? Let's have acupressure competition this time. We'll each have a lamb as our test subjects. Each person will apply acupressure once, and whoever's lamb dies first wins, how about it?!"

Without Su Ziyang needing to rack his brains to figure out what Guo Tianren meant, Guo Tianren directly stated his intentions.

"This..."

Before anyone else could speak, Fairy Li declared, "The greatest virtue of Heaven and Earth is life; Heaven cherishes life. How can we so easily take a life?"

Upon hearing Li Xian's words, Guo Tianren chuckled and said, "Since Master Daoist Master Li so merciful, why don't you just admit defeat? Return our sect's rhinoceros horn hairpin, and we can go our separate ways. How about we keep to ourselves from now on?"

After Guo Tianren finished speaking, Fairy Li fell silent. She was waiting for Guo Tianren to apologize and admit his mistake. But instead, she'd been outmaneuvered.

"How about this!"

Old Daoist Master Xiao had been silent all along, finally spoke.

"You choose a lamb, and we'll save it. If the lamb survives, we win! If it dies, we lose!"

Old Daoist Master Xiao finished speaking, Guo Tianren, holding the bleating lamb, turned around and looked at his master Yang Jinguang.

Yang Jinguang nodded expressionlessly, which was taken as tacit agreement.

"Then let's begin. You choose, whichever one you pick, we'll use!"

Guo Tianren, unusually fair for once, brought over the ropes from the two lambs.

Old Daoist Master Xiao pointed to the one that looked the stronger of the two and said, "This is the one!"

Old Daoist Master Xiao had spent his life traveling all over the country, and had even had his legs crushed by train tracks.

I also had good eyesight, so I chose a lamb that looked like it would live a longer life.

"Hehe."

After Old Daoist Master Xiao finished making his selection, the tall, thin old man who had been sitting next to Yang Jinguang walked to the center of the open space.

He pulled the lamb close to him, then crossed his hands and placed both thumbs on the lamb's neck.

Then he tugged at the lamb again, and the lamb let out a painful bleat as the tall, thin old man poked his index finger into the lamb's stomach.

After making these two movements, the tall, thin old man didn't say a word. He gestured for Su Ziyang's group to enter, and then confidently sat back down in his seat.

"Ziyang, go!"

Daoist Jin patted Su Ziyang Su Ziyang on the shoulder, instructing him to release the acupoints.

When Su Ziyang noticed that everyone's eyes were on him, he suddenly felt a little lost.

"... Why did Old Daoist Master Xiao suggest I release the acupoints? Are there even acupoints on a sheep???"

Su Ziyang rubbed his face and complained.

"So this is the kind of skill you have? If you don't go, who will? Besides, this whole thing was about getting justice for you. Why are you backing down? Hurry up and go!!!"

Mengfei gave Su Ziyang a gentle push.

Su Ziyang clicked his tongue, sighed, and limped over to the little lamb that was lying motionless on the spot.

When the lamb saw Su Ziyang approaching, it became a little scared and struggled to run away.

But no matter how much the lamb struggled, it couldn't stand up again; it just twitched in place. This happened just as Su Ziyang touched the lamb's head.

The lamb's nose and mouth have started bleeding...

Su Ziyang frowned deeply as he looked at the lamb bleeding from its mouth and nose.

That old guy really went all out; he made me cough up blood so quickly... He's aiming for a quick victory, giving me no chance to react at all.

Su Ziyang was absolutely certain that if three more minutes passed, the lamb would definitely be lying on the ground, a corpse.

In a moment of desperation, Su Ziyang took out a pill of liniment he had taken the night before from his backpack.

"Eat it!"

Su Ziyang held out the medicine in his hand, but the little lamb wasn't human and didn't understand what Su Ziyang was saying.

It just bleated in pain, blood constantly flowing from its mouth.

"If you don't want to die, then eat it!"

Su Ziyang's tone was commanding or somewhat reprimanding.

As the saying goes, everything has a spirit.

The little lamb bleated twice, seemingly understanding Su Ziyang's words.

He actually licked Su Ziyang's palm twice before swallowing the pill.

Su Ziyang was overjoyed to see that the lamb had actually taken the medicine. Bruises and sprains are external injuries, but acupressure usually causes internal injuries.

Whether it's internal or external injury, they all have similar causes, which is why Su Ziyang suddenly had the idea to give the lamb a pill for bruises and sprains first, and then talk about releasing the acupoints.

Su Ziyang didn't see the tall, thin old man's technique clearly, but he did see the old man poke the lamb's belly and neck.

Little lamb, little lamb...

Su Ziyang muttered to himself as he pondered.

Since animals have different body structures than humans, it's uncertain whether the acupoints they use are the same as those in humans.

Or rather, Su Ziyang couldn't be sure whether animals had acupoints or meridians.

"We have no choice but to try anything, even if it's a desperate situation."

The lamb took a medicine for bruises and sprains, and the bleeding from its mouth stopped, giving Su Ziyang time to think.

Su Ziyang stroked the lamb's neck and found a slightly different spot.

This place should be equivalent to the Fengchi acupoint in humans.

"If Fengchi (GB20) is pressed... then the Qihai (CV6) or Zhongwan (CV12) acupoints should be on the abdomen!"

As Su Ziyang reasoned, he ran his hands over the lamb to find the specific problem area.

The Fengchi acupoint is located in the depression between the upper ends of the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles. It belongs to the Gallbladder Meridian of Foot Shaoyang and is mainly used to treat chills and fever, typhoid fever with no sweating, dizziness, severe headache, malaria, neck pain that feels like it's being pulled out and prevents turning the head, excessive tearing, frequent yawning, nasal congestion and epistaxis, red and painful inner canthus of the eye, ear congestion, blurred vision, pain in the lower back and waist, hunchback with weakness in the neck muscles, stroke, stagnation of qi with saliva and inability to speak, fainting, and goiter.

Qihai is located on the anterior midline, one and a half inches below the navel, and is an acupoint on the Ren meridian.

It treats a wide range of ailments, including typhoid fever, excessive water intake, abdominal distension, shortness of breath and epigastric pain, cold-related facial redness, weakness of the internal organs and qi, deficiency of vital True Qi, chronic qi-related diseases, emaciation, weakness of the limbs, hernia, small intestine, bladder and kidney retractions, abdominal masses resembling an inverted cup, sudden abdominal distension that cannot be depressed, cold pain below the navel, sudden collapse of yang and impending death, yin deficiency and testicular retraction, cold extremities, constipation, dark urine, sudden heart pain, emaciation in women before menstruation and intercourse, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, irregular menstruation, persistent lochia after childbirth, periumbilical pain, sprained back pain, and bedwetting in children.

Su Ziyang finally determined that the acupoints injured on the lamb's belly were Qihai and Fengchi, so Su Ziyang now needed to release the acupoints.

However, when it came to releasing the acupoints, Su Ziyang encountered a problem.

To relieve the symptoms at Qihai and Fengchi acupoints, you must use Yongquan and Jianjing acupoints.

But lambs are four-limbed crawling animals, so where is their Jianjing acupoint?

If we were to force this arrangement, then even if the lamb has the Jianjing acupoint, located on the scapula of its front leg...

But where is the Yongquan acupoint?

It's a hoof that's in two halves...

Where is the Yongquan acupoint?

After Su Ziyang laid the lamb flat, he looked at the lamb's limbs and hooves and was a little speechless.

Never mind, let's solve one first and then talk about the other.

Su Ziyang held the lamb's hoof in his hand, then reluctantly put it down. He then cheered himself up and placed his left hand on the lamb's shoulder blade—the "human-like" Jianjing acupoint.

Su Ziyang lightly tapped his finger, using a spiraling force, and the lamb's shoulder blade cracked with a sound...

"Meow--"

The lamb, in pain, surprisingly stood up from the ground.

This startled Su Ziyang...